Celebrating the 20th anniversary of frieze magazine
07/03/11
Simon Reynolds is a music critic based in Los Angeles. Here his choices include Michael Bracewell’s essay about motorway service stations and a round-table about ‘super-hybridity’.
Message to Michael by Bruce Hainley
Issue 48, September–October 1999
An essay
Road to Nowhere by Michael Bracewell
Issue 54, September–October 2000
Motorways, service areas and boredom
Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow
Issue 68, June–August 2002
Jonny Trunk of Trunk Records, Paul Lambden of Spinney Records and Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne talk about the delights of Folk
Eternal Return by Brian Dillon
Issue 77, September 2003
The philosophy of repetition
The Importance of Being Earnest by Charlotte Taylor
Issue 92, June–August 2005
Or, how not to confuse Whimsy or Camp with Ironic Kitsch
Tate Triennial 2009 by Tom Morton
Issue 120, January–February 2009
Nicolas Bourriaud, curator of the next Tate Triennial, ‘Altermodern’, talks about botany, modernity, time, class and exhibition-making
Real Abstractions by Mark Fisher
Issue 125, September 2009
The application of theory in the real world
Class Act by Dan Fox
Issue 126, October 2009
What do we mean when we call someone, or something, pretentious?
Music by Geeta Dayal
Issue 132, June–August 2010
A handful of recent DJ mixes and online experiments point the way to a more communal form of listening
Analyze This by Jörg Heiser, Ronald Jones, Nina Power, Seth Price, Sukhdev Sandhu and Hito Steyerl
Issue 133, September 2010
A round table discussion led by on ‘super-hybridity’: what is it and should we be worried?
Issue 61, September 2001 – by Vidya Gastaldon and Jean-Michel Wicker